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Arrow acquires Altimate
2012-04-19
American giant distributor Arrow Electronics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of VAD Altimate, a subsidiary of Irish group DCC, for €41m in cash and €7.1m related to "deferred acquisition considerations" of Altimate that Arrow will take on. Specialized in storage and security, Altimate operates in eight countries including Belgium, France (its country of origin), Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. It has a network of approximately 2,500 value-added resellers and system integrators. This acquisition will allow Arrow's VAD division Arrow ECS to globally strengthen its positions in all these countries (despite some local overlaps in terms of vendors), providing the acquisition is closed (in the next 90 days) and cleared by regulatory approval.

Arrow ECS gets more wireless with Aruba
2012-04-04
Intelligent wireless LAN switching vendor Aruba has expanded its partnership with infrastructure VAD Arrow ECS to the full Western Europe. The companies were working together until now in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. From now on, Aruba products are also available through Arrow ECS offices in Belgium, Estonia, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,Portugal and Spain.

Arrow ECS joins Pano Logic's EMEA Channel Network
2012-04-03
Pano Logic, a specialist in zero client desktop virtualization (VDI), has unveiled that infrastructure VAD Arrow ECS has become an authorized Pano Logic value-added distributor for 26 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Pano Logic will draw from Arrow ECS' expertise and resources to Pano Logic resellers that are assisting organizations with radically centralizing desktop computing with the Pano System and slashing their total cost of ownership (TCO). Pano Logic products should be available in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom as soon as local teams are trained.

Arrow ECS signs with Brocade
2012-03-13
Scandinavia : network and storage vendor Brocade has appointed infrastructure VAD Arrow ECS as official distributor in the Scandinavian region. Arrow ECS will push Brocade network solutions through its offices in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Xsigo targets Europe with Arrow to expand local presence
2011-12-02
Already working together since 2008 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, virtualized data center infrastructure vendor Xsigo Systems has expanded its partnership with Arrow ECS through a pan-European distribution agreement spanning 27 countries. This agreement draws from Xsigo’s virtual I/O technologies and Arrow’s server, storage and virtualization expertise to create a highly effective combination. Arrow ECS' relationships with suppliers including EMC, IBM, Oracle and VMware allow it to build and document reference architectures that are blueprinted answers to today's most challenging data center issues, such as virtual server performance, cost containment, and infrastructure scalability. Solution providers will be able to demonstrate these technologies live using Xsigo equipment installed at regional Arrow demonstration centers. Beside Ireland and the United Kingdom, the partnership between Arrow ECS and Xsigo spans effectively and immediatly over the Benelux (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands), the DACH region (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland) ad Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden). More regions may be added later, in response to the growth of the demand for Xsigo products in EMEA.